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First Mozilla release candidate on the way
News Mozilla, the long-awaited open-source version of the Netscape browser, is to release its first beta-test version aimed at a broad audience in the next few days. Mozilla has created a branch of the ongoing repository of code, or "tree", which will...
[April 11, 2002, 12:18]
First release candidate of Firefox 3 arrives
News The first release candidate of Firefox 3 was made available to developers on Friday, ahead of the browser's scheduled full release in June. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) features tweaks to the user interface across all operating systems...
[May 19, 2008, 12:15]
Red Hat's first combined release with JBoss
News Red Hat on Monday is expected to release the first combined product release following its acquisition of JBoss earlier this year. With its first application infrastructure release, Red Hat is aiming to create the base components needed for a wide...
[September 18, 2006, 16:40]
Wine gets its first stable release
News The first stable release of Wine has made an appearance, after 15 years of development and testing around the world. The project started in 1993; the first beta version was released in October 2005; and Wine 1.0 was released on Tuesday.
[June 18, 2008, 13:02]
Windows 7 Release Candidate: a first look review
Reviews Windows 7 has entered the home straight, with the appearance of what looks likely to be its one and only Release Candidate (RC). With a feature-complete Beta release, and remarkable transparency on the Engineering Windows 7 blog, there are very few...
[May 5, 2009, 13:03]
Firefox 1.0 release candidate launched
News The Mozilla Foundation on Thursday produced the first release candidate for its Firefox browser, which will be available in up to 24 different languages and includes around 250 bug fixes, according to the SpreadFirefox Web site.
[October 28, 2004, 16:49]
Red Hat lifts lid on Fedora
News Red Hat will release the first version of its hobbyist edition of Linux on Thursday, a company executive said, as the software seller tries to improve profitability by splitting its product line. Red Hat had hoped to release the software, called...
[November 6, 2003, 11:20]
Open-source audio wins MP3 player support
News Vorbis' development team finished its first full release last July. Open-source audio technology Ogg Vorbis will get its first official entrée into a commercial portable MP3 player next month. Digital Innovations is set to release its Neuros...
[February 25, 2003, 9:59]
FreeBSD 5.3 beta is released
News Scott Long, the software engineer leading the release work, said the first beta release revealed some significant bugs in the way the software handled multiprocessor operations. The first beta of FreeBSD 5.3, the popular open source operating...
[August 25, 2004, 17:35]
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 review
Reviews It has taken Microsoft a while to get Virtual Machine Manager 2007 to market, and this first release doesn't offer all of the functionality originally planned. It would be wrong to assume that this first release of VMM 2007 is crippled in any way...
[February 28, 2008, 11:11]
Apple readies first Jaguar update
News Apple Computer this week plans to release the first update to recently released Mac OS X 10.2, also known as Jaguar, sources said. Apple launched Jaguar with great fanfare late evening on 23 August, with many Apple retail stores reporting release...
[September 17, 2002, 8:27]
Monday's Memphis beta may disappoint
News Microsoft will release a first public beta test version of Memphis on Monday, amid reports that it may offer little for most users. The first Memphis beta will also offer the first glimpse of Microsoft's vision of the Active Desktop, running with...
[June 27, 1997, 16:08]
'First' open source ECM nears release
News Software company Alfresco is putting the finishing touches to the first release of its open source content-management system, which it claims is the first non-proprietary product to hit the enterprise content management (ECM) industry.
[October 12, 2005, 13:35]
Microsoft Virtual Server R2 ships with Linux support
News Microsoft Virtual Server Release 2 has begun shipping to manufacturers and is due for general release in the first week of December with a new pricing model and a number of new features, most notably formal support for Linux.
[November 16, 2005, 12:05]
GNOME gives peek into next-gen Linux desktop
News Free-software developers have released the first pre-release of the next generation of GNOME, one of several Linux desktop environments that make the operating system simpler to use. The program is in the last stages of bug-catching and the first...
[October 5, 2001, 16:30]
HTC to make first Android handset
News HTC, the mobile-handset manufacturer best known for its Windows Mobile smartphones, is set to become the first vendor to release a handset using Google's Linux-based software stack, Android. HTC said on Tuesday it would release its first Android...
[November 6, 2007, 11:08]
IBM plans 2003 muscle servers
News The company is poised to release its first "blade" servers and 16-processor Intel-based systems in coming weeks. The first versions of that system, using four Itanium 2 processors, will be released "beginning early next year," Whitney said.
[November 28, 2002, 7:40]
Red Hat postpones first 2.6-based Linux
News Red Hat hoped to release a first test version of Linux based on the new 2.6 kernel on Monday, but has delayed the move until later in the week. Fedora Core 2 is scheduled for final release on April 5.
[February 3, 2004, 10:40]
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile management tool
News Microsoft is to release its first server-based tool for managing and securing Windows Mobile devices. However, SCMDM will only work with a new version of Windows Mobile and new devices supporting that version, which are both scheduled for release...
[October 23, 2007, 11:30]
Dual-core Xeon wait shortened
News Intel plans to release its first dual-core server processors this year instead of next, and it will employ an unusual manoeuvre to catch up to AMD in the key competitive area. Previously, Paxville was officially scheduled for release in the first...
[August 16, 2005, 9:00]
